Press Release May 18, 2018:

Tarantula Hill Brewing Company is proud to announce that Mike Richmond will be our Brewmaster.

Mike spent the last 10 years honing his skils at Stone Brewing in San Diego under the tutelage of legendary Brewmaster, Mitch Steele. We are so excited to have a brewmaster of this caliber join the family.

As an added bonus, Mike is also locally grown, born and raised in Newbury Park.

Mike Richmond’s Bio:

Mike was born in Thousand Oaks in 1980. After graduating from Newbury Park High School in 1998 he attended UCSB and graduated in 2002 with a degree in Biological Sciences. After a few years in Santa Barbara working as an Agricultural Technician for the State of California, he moved to Washington DC where he supervised DC’s largest 24/7 Veterinary Hospital for 6 years. During this time is when began home brewing. Mike’s love of brewing grew so much that he moved to Davis, CA in 2009 to complete the Master Brewing Program at UCD where he successfully passed the Institute of Brewing & Distilling, Diploma in Brewing Examination.

Weeks after completion of the program, Mike landed a position working under Master brewer Mitch Steele at Stone Brewing in San Diego, where he was for nearly 10 years.

Mike took full advantage of his time at Stone to learn how to run every piece of brewing equipment and to gain valuable managerial & operational experience. As Brewing Manager of a brewery the magnitude of Stone, the knowledge and experience he gained was invaluable for his next venture.

In May 2018, Mike headed back to his hometown in the Conejo Valley to become the Brewmaster for the first Thousand Oaks brewery, Tarantula Hill Brewing Company.

Quote from Mike:

“Hello Thousand Oaks and Newbury Park. Tarantula Hill Brewing Co. has been in planning for quite some time and I’m beyond excited to finally let our community and friends know that I’ll be returning with my fiancé Katie, as Brewmaster of our first brewery. This is an amazing ‘first of its kind’ project in T.O. created and run by a phenomenal group of local people. It’s great to be back in my hometown! I was born and raised here, graduated from Newbury Park High School (Go Panthers!) and my parents still live here. It feels great to have this opportunity to come back to my

roots. Along with our own families and the Tarantula Hill family we simply can’t wait to share this vision and hang out with some great craft beers together. See you soon. Cheers!” -Mike